NationStates Jolt Archive

Is your boss an idiot? Is s/he incompentent? Are they always complaining about nothing? Does your boss always go for lunch during the peak busy time of the day? Do they cut everyone's hours only to employ some 17 year old because they can be paid less? Does your boss complain about the cost of labour only to claim 35hours/week pay for the 27 hours a week s/he works? Is your boss the shining star of your life? Has your boss saved your life? Are you having an affair with your boss? Is your boss the only reason that makes you want to come to work? Are you your own boss? Do you want to fire your boss? Do you want to fire your boss out of a cannon? Or even light your boss on fire? What do you think about your boss? :cool:

My boss does not exist.

My boss is generally fair but seems to favor idiotic projects.

My boss is the man.

Is your boss an idiot? Is s/he incompentent? Are they always complaining about nothing? Does your boss always go for lunch during the peak busy time of the day? Do they cut everyone's hours only to employ some 17 year old because they can be paid less? Does your boss complain about the cost of labour only to claim 35hours/week pay for the 27 hours a week s/he works? Is your boss the shining star of your life? Has your boss saved your life? Are you having an affair with your boss? Is your boss the only reason that makes you want to come to work? Are you your own boss? Do you want to fire your boss? Do you want to fire your boss out of a cannon? Or even light your boss on fire? What do you think about your boss? :cool:
Yes.

My boss is fond of sitting in the tearoom reading newspapers and drinking coffee.

My boss is fond of sitting in the tearoom reading newspapers and drinking coffee.
Coffee in the tearoom?
That's blasphemy!

Coffee in the tearoom?
That's blasphemy!

LOL

lunchroom, then. :p

I really like my current boss.

My boss is a nice person, but not terribly good at being boss.

My boss actually looks after us very well, in fact goes out of her way to help.

No boss

I've had some very good ones and some very bad ones. The worst one, I laughed like hell when he got his car towed at a Dolphins game. The best one I worked double shifts without a whimper.

My last boss was scared of me. He was very insecure all the time.

He wasn't a good boss, but he wasn't the worst. I think he didn't like me...
Which my boss say I have bad work ethics WTF??

Although I'm always the latest to arrive at work, works the hardest, and always the first to ask for my pay. Plus I don't do overtime unless you pay me more.

Plus I always look like I'm slacking and talking while I'm doing my work because I can type without needing to look at the keyboard. Multi-tasking rocks. :p

(I was working for some data entry company outsourced by some insurance company, we have records of how much work we do per day. I'm very very proficcient in my typing, I usually finish like 2000 files, where the average per day is around 1500-1700.)

I'm probably the wrong person to ask right at this moment about my boss.
But to be positive and fair, I would describe him as an arrogant control-freak who dwells solely on crticising his employees and looking at negatives to use against them. An asshole with the emotional age of a 4 year old who is obsessed only with money and expects everyone to give their lives to his company so he can make even more money.

To put it perspective, when 'Dave's ESL cafe' website published repeated criticisms from former employees about him, he threatened to sue them and even get the FBI (WTF?) onto them. Quite what the FBI have to do with a website publishing personal opinions about a HK company and what exactly they could do about it can only be found in my boss' fevered imagination.

As an example of his management style, last week I was told by a secretary that a class had been cancelled only to find out it hadn't (her english isn't that good and she was confused as to what I was asking her). Anyway, he makes me wait 90 minutes after I finish work and then gives me an official warning letter for 'habitual neglect of duty'. He refused to ammend it even though he did finally admit it was a mistake and only occurred once. He claimed I had been neglectful at other times but in reply to me asking him when and how, said he didn't have to answer that.
(in HK, labour laws are set up for the employer - so he can actually refuse to tell me. He also doesn't have to prove 'habitual neglect', I have to disprove it. And of course I can't because he doesn't have to tell me when these instances occurred).
Coincidently, now that I have been given a warning letter, he no longer has to pay my bonus, due in a month ($1500US equivalent).
He has done this many times previously - including firing a woman 7 months pregnant so he wouldn't have to pay martenity leave. Unfortunately I only found out all this after I started work.

Suffice to say I'm looking for another position.

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Suffice to say I'm looking for another position.
Good luck with the search, mate. Let him reap what he's sown.

He's a good guy overall. He owns the place, so the less work he puts in, the less the shop makes, the less he makes.

Being in sixth form my boss is my headteacher and he's useless. He's so obsessed with statistics and targets that he misses the blatantly obvious things wrong with the place, like the fact it literally stinks due to the dodgy sewers.

I'm an army boy. Actually, an Army Reserve boy, but that's only until i finish school this year. Then i'll be a real, full time soldier! :p

The Leftenant (nobody in australia says 'lieutenant') of our unit is a frigging airhead. He's got an ego the size of france and the leadership skills of a cockroach. The Regimental Sergeant-Major is always screaming at him, even though he is technically lower in rank. It's always good for a laugh.
Especially when nobody listens to him during field exercises :p.